Gate.



' Pat ented Oct. 29, l90l. .1. R. wmeur; v

GATE.

(Application filed Aug. 3 1901.)

(No model.)

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.. similar View of the double eye.

PATENT.

JOHN R. WRIGHT, or WHEELING,,MISSOURI.

GATE.-

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 685,706, dated October 29, 1901.

Original application filed March 8, 1901, Serial No. 50,362. Divided and this application tiled August 3, 1901. Serial 110.70,?42. (No model.) s I To all whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, JOHN R. VRIGHT', acitizen of the United States, residing at \Vheel ing, in the county of Livingston and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gates, of which the following is a specification.

such purposes and to provide a gate and means for raising it in closed position for the passage of small animals or for any'other purposes desired that myinventionisintended.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this application, Figure l is a perspective view of thegate open. Fig. 2 isaside elevation showing the gateclosed and raised and thebrace-tightenerremoved. 3isa perspective view of the clevis. Fig. ttisaperspective view of the single eye. Fig. 5 is a Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the brace-tightener.

The same numerals of reference denote the same parts throughout the several views of the drawings. a

The front gate-post l'has a mortise therein and a series of pin-holes 3 for a suitable latch-pin 4. r 6, by which the gate is hinged.

The gate consists of a rear standard 7, a like front standard 8, and there may be an intervening standard and a series of slats 9,

pivoted at 10 in the standards 7 and 8. A latch llis made to slide through the standard 8 and has under-side notches 12 to'engage a keeper 13 and a hand-knob 2 for sliding the latch into the mortise 2, said latch being engaged by the pin 4 after the gate is closed and placed in a desired position. This pin 4 holds the gate against higher movement from such position until the rear end of the latch The rear gate-post 5 has hinges v the gate up with a passagev under it.

is raised to free the notches, when the" latch may be slid backward to open the gate withpivotally hung from the top gate-slat near its rear end and extending along betweenthis slat and the next one below for about one-third of the gatelength, where the cable is separated into two strauds lti and 17, which extend downwardly, one on each side of the gate, and are loosely held by a double eye 18, pivoted to. the front end of,v

. the bottom gate-slat.

Theclevis 19 is slidably hungover one: of

the gate-slats, preferably the one next' to' the top slat, and hascyes 20, through which the.

cable-strands 16 and 17 work. The bracei tightener'2l consists of a handle 22, having i formed on one side thereof a lug23, having a pointed or wedge-shaped bottom end and a grooved top end. The said pointed end fitsin notches 24: on the c1ip'-slat,and the cable fits the said grooved end, sothat by working the handle of the tightener the cable-brace may be operated to tightenthe gate or to prevent it from sagging, whether it be'in'raised or;

lowered position. To raise the gate when'it isclosed, the latch-pin being removed, it is;

simply necessary to niovethe clevis forward,

which will cause the slats to work on their" pivots and elevate the front portion of the gateas desired, whereupon the latch-pinis inmovement of the gate,'and' the clevis holds The sorted over the latch, which prevents higher gate may be operated to open and close in this position, if desired. ltis obvious that to lower the gate, Whether open or closed, the clevis is simply moved backward. The clevis may also be used to prevent sagging -by a slight forward movement thereof.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Aswinginggate'composed of aseries of pivoted slats, in combination with abrace-cable diagonally connecting the top and bottomslats, anintervening one of said slats having I In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand notches, a elevis hung fromanotched slat and in the presence of two witnesses.

holdin the strands of the cable and adapted to be slid on said slat to raise and lower the I JOHN WVRIGHT 5 gate, and a brace-tightener operated in the Vitnesses:

I notches and against the cable to tighten the ELMER LOWE, gate in either raised or lowered position. I GEO. H. WILLIAMS. 

